GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4875, 22 May 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

PATROL OF MEDITERRANEAN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association WASHINGTON. May 20. The United Press Tokio correspondent- reports that Japanese destroyers actively patrolling the Mediterranean participated iii several engagements with submarines. Japanese warships on May 3 were escorting Allied transports whereof one was torpedoed. All on board were saved. AMERICAN FREIGHTER SUNK. Australian and N.Z- Cable Association WASHINGTON. May 20. The American freighter . McCullough was mined or Torpedoed in European waters. One man was drowned. AUSTRO-GERMAN AGREEMENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON. May 21 The Daily Mail’s Hague correspondent states that- the Austro-Gennan bargain stipulated for a supply of food to Austria from. Germany . in order to render an offensive against Italy possible. It was intended, thatBohemia, the Tyrol and Viennashould especially benefit. ALLIED SHIPBUILDING. Australian ar.d N.Z. Cable Association NEW YORK, May 20. Mr. Crawford Vaughan, interviewed at Vancouver, said: The Allies need seven and a half million tons of new shipping this year to maintain their ground and despatch the American army of a million and a half men to France. The United. States has been backward hitherto, hut is now making every effort, to meet the demands. There has been no strike in United States’ shipyards for months, owing to the Government propaganda explanatory of war aims. AMERICAN AIR HERO. Australian and N.Z. CablG Association NEW YORK, May 20. Reports from the American, front state that Major Raoul Lufberry, an American air hero, formerly of t.io Lafayette Pioneer Flying Corps, was shot ‘ and killed on Sunday during a running air fight. The body has been recovered.